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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 8dc8e9c2913f..57fc576b1f3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ Original author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> - Last updated on June 24, 2007. - Copyright (C) 1999 Richard Gooch Copyright (C) 2005 Pekka Enberg @@ -465,6 +463,12 @@ otherwise noted. argument. If request can't be handled without leaving RCU mode, have it return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD). + If the filesystem stores the symlink target in ->i_link, the + VFS may use it directly without calling ->get_link(); however, + ->get_link() must still be provided. ->i_link must not be + freed until after an RCU grace period. Writing to ->i_link + post-iget() time requires a 'release' memory barrier. + readlink: this is now just an override for use by readlink(2) for the cases when ->get_link uses nd_jump_link() or object is not in fact a symlink. Normally filesystems should only implement @@ -857,6 +861,7 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); + int (*iopoll)(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool spin); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); @@ -902,6 +907,8 @@ otherwise noted. write_iter: possibly asynchronous write with iov_iter as source + iopoll: called when aio wants to poll for completions on HIPRI iocbs + iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents iterate_shared: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents |